What traditional food does the dragon eat?

1, spring cakes, eating spring cakes is called "eating Longlin", which is very vivid. A spring pancake bigger than the palm of your hand is like a piece of Long Lin. Spring cakes are hard and contain many dishes. Such as sauce meat, elbow, smoked chicken, sauce duck, etc. Cut them into filaments with a knife and stir-fry them with some home-cooked dishes, such as fried shredded pork with leek, fried shredded pork with spinach, mung bean sprout vinegar, vegetarian fried vermicelli and scrambled eggs. , and rolled into spring cakes, dipped in shredded onion and sesame oil noodle sauce, really delicious and refreshing. When eating spring cakes, the family sits around, puts the baked spring cakes into the steamer and takes them while eating. Hot and happy.

2, pig's head meat, the second day of the second lunar month is a traditional festival for ordinary people, and there are customs of eating pig's head meat, biting pig's trotters and biting pig's ears on February 2, which symbolize auspiciousness and prosperity. People buy pig's head meat in succession, hoping for a good sign in the new year. People describe dragons as finding features from many animals. In the image of dragon, we can find the shadows of snake, fish, phoenix, dragon, deer, horse and cow. This is why people use pig heads instead of faucets.

3. jiaozi, on February 2nd, every household will pack jiaozi. Eating jiaozi on this day is called "eating dragon ears". In the past, medicine was underdeveloped and it was not easy to treat diseases. Probably people think that "dragon heads up" can curb all diseases, and eating "dragon ears" can protect the body and eliminate all diseases. Up to now, there is still the jingle "Eat jiaozi on February 2nd, and all diseases are afraid of dragons running outside".

4. Fried cakes. In some areas such as Beijing and Tianjin, people have the custom of eating fried cakes during the Spring Festival, which is called "eating gentian". The fried cake is golden in color, which makes Gentiana macrophylla very vivid. The practice is to grind millet into yellow rice, and then grind yellow rice into flour, which is yellow wheat. Yellow rice cake made of yellow wheat has four characteristics: yellow, soft, thick and fragrant. There are two ways to eat, one is vegetarian cake and the other is fried cake.

5, mustard rice, eating mustard rice on February 2 of the lunar calendar is a widely circulated custom in Wenzhou, there is a saying that eating mustard rice does not produce scabies. In the old society, ordinary people lived in poverty and had a weak sense of health. In addition, there are many patients with skin diseases (such as scabies), who are easily infected. Mustard contains a lot of chlorophyll and vitamin C. Regular consumption of vegetables rich in chlorophyll and vitamin C can improve autoimmune ability and enhance resistance, which is good for human skin. So there is a saying that eating mustard rice does not produce scabies.